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Jack and Lem: John F. Kennedy and Lem Billings: The Untold Story of an Extraordinary Friendship

Autor David Pitts
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 24 mar 2008
I'm not that kind of boy,” Jack angrily wrote to Lem after his friend made a sexual advance. But Jack didn't end the relationship. From the time John F. Kennedy and Kirk LeMoyne “Lem” Billings met at Choate, until the President's assassination thirty years later, Jack and Lem remained best friends. Lem was a virtual fixture in the Kennedy family who even had his own room at the White House. Drawing on hundreds of letters and telegrams between the two, plus Lem Billings's oral history and interviews with family and friends like Ben Bradlee, Gore Vidal, and Ted Sorensen, award-winning Kennedy scholar David Pitts tells the story of an unusual friendship that endured despite an era of rampant homophobia.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780306816239
ISBN-10: 0306816237
Pagini: 384
Ilustrații: black & white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 152 x 232 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.5 kg
Editura: Hachette Book Group
Colecția Da Capo Press

Notă biografică

David Pittshas been senior writer at the U.S. Information Agency/Voice of America, and has written for publications including theWashington Post,Philadelphia Inquirer, andChristian Science Monitor. He lives in Washington, D.C.

Recenzii

Instinct
“Finally—proof that a 'mo lived in the White House…This simple-to-digest study features fascinating, firsthand accounts from Camelot…What we leave with is that inevitably haunting question: Had he lived, what more could JFK have done for the progression of human rights?”

San Francisco Chronicle, 11/22/13
“[An] excellent book…Essential reading for those seeking that which shaped JFK's indelible personality.”